]]>By: Carapacehttp://www.lightspeedpress.com/?webcomic_post=119&cpage=1#comment-1041
CarapaceMon, 16 Nov 2009 22:07:19 +0000http://www.lightspeedpress.com/?p=357#comment-1041Thanks, Liza! I was racking my brains trying to remember where that fella had appeared before.
Now, what on earth is that thing on his chest? Part of the communications setup? A bubble pipe?Thanks, Liza! I was racking my brains trying to remember where that fella had appeared before.

Now, what on earth is that thing on his chest? Part of the communications setup? A bubble pipe?

]]>By: Lizahttp://www.lightspeedpress.com/?webcomic_post=119&cpage=1#comment-1032
LizaMon, 16 Nov 2009 12:58:31 +0000http://www.lightspeedpress.com/?p=357#comment-1032Bookstore Hat is the guy from comic 200 who originally phoned in to Jack's show to report on Shar:
http://www.lightspeedpress.com/?p=200
His glasses are similar to Glasses's, but perhaps all Ascian-made frames are that model.Bookstore Hat is the guy from comic 200 who originally phoned in to Jack’s show to report on Shar:http://www.lightspeedpress.com/?p=200

His glasses are similar to Glasses’s, but perhaps all Ascian-made frames are that model.

]]>By: Hmpfhttp://www.lightspeedpress.com/?webcomic_post=119&cpage=1#comment-1026
HmpfMon, 16 Nov 2009 02:37:55 +0000http://www.lightspeedpress.com/?p=357#comment-1026The hat could easily be a Medawar army hat, I think. It's lacking insignia but the general form's the same.The hat could easily be a Medawar army hat, I think. It’s lacking insignia but the general form’s the same.
]]>By: Oneiroshttp://www.lightspeedpress.com/?webcomic_post=119&cpage=1#comment-1011
OneirosSun, 15 Nov 2009 00:35:00 +0000http://www.lightspeedpress.com/?p=357#comment-1011(I don't know where the civil war reenactment clothes come from, but it does remind me of the movie "Dances With Wolves", how Lt. Dunbar gradually came to have Sioux articles of clothing, and his Sioux friends would get some of his Union Army clothes, through trading.)(I don’t know where the civil war reenactment clothes come from, but it does remind me of the movie “Dances With Wolves”, how Lt. Dunbar gradually came to have Sioux articles of clothing, and his Sioux friends would get some of his Union Army clothes, through trading.)
]]>By: reptanglehttp://www.lightspeedpress.com/?webcomic_post=119&cpage=1#comment-1007
reptangleSat, 14 Nov 2009 19:38:07 +0000http://www.lightspeedpress.com/?p=357#comment-1007I don't think that guy in the bookstore is "Glasses". His expression and glasses look the same, but he doesn't have the defined cheek bones.
(Where are all these civil war reenactment clothes coming from? )I don’t think that guy in the bookstore is “Glasses”. His expression and glasses look the same, but he doesn’t have the defined cheek bones.

(Where are all these civil war reenactment clothes coming from? )

]]>By: reptanglehttp://www.lightspeedpress.com/?webcomic_post=119&cpage=1#comment-1005
reptangleSat, 14 Nov 2009 17:49:50 +0000http://www.lightspeedpress.com/?p=357#comment-1005It is spelled "Laeske". I finally found my box of "Finders" and looked it up.
There are more than one of those Laeske you know. They have their own symbols on bathroom stalls. If they as a species ( the males ) tend to be academic types, there is no reason one wouldn't be a surgeon.
I don't think I'd want Rachel as my brain surgeon. Or Hamlette.It is spelled “Laeske”. I finally found my box of “Finders” and looked it up.
There are more than one of those Laeske you know. They have their own symbols on bathroom stalls. If they as a species ( the males ) tend to be academic types, there is no reason one wouldn’t be a surgeon.
I don’t think I’d want Rachel as my brain surgeon. Or Hamlette.
]]>By: Oneiroshttp://www.lightspeedpress.com/?webcomic_post=119&cpage=1#comment-1003
OneirosSat, 14 Nov 2009 16:39:40 +0000http://www.lightspeedpress.com/?p=357#comment-1003I thought the "Does he usually ramble on like thissh?" in the second panel indicated that the speaker is a Lasske (sp?), making that speaker and the Lasske in the third panel the same. Or the lisp is not that of a Lasske, or there's a Lasske at Jack's operation, and one with Glasses, too. (Here a Lasske, there a Lasske, everywhere a Lasske.)
My guess was that the one saying that the rambling is a symptom was someone familiar with the operation. Maybe the operation or the anaesthetic makes people ramble.
And if Ascians are "people of the book", and their books are in their head, and Jack gets plugged into the Anvard Net, then the Ascian book in Jack's head will be plugged into Anvard. If Anvard has access to Jack's head, then the Ascians lose their privacy, and that will blur the things that make them distinct from Anvard.I thought the “Does he usually ramble on like thissh?” in the second panel indicated that the speaker is a Lasske (sp?), making that speaker and the Lasske in the third panel the same. Or the lisp is not that of a Lasske, or there’s a Lasske at Jack’s operation, and one with Glasses, too. (Here a Lasske, there a Lasske, everywhere a Lasske.)

My guess was that the one saying that the rambling is a symptom was someone familiar with the operation. Maybe the operation or the anaesthetic makes people ramble.

And if Ascians are “people of the book”, and their books are in their head, and Jack gets plugged into the Anvard Net, then the Ascian book in Jack’s head will be plugged into Anvard. If Anvard has access to Jack’s head, then the Ascians lose their privacy, and that will blur the things that make them distinct from Anvard.